POV and Perspective

Author's perspective is

• The creators of the texts feelings about what they are talking about (viewpoint)

• Who is doing the telling in the text

• The message, lesson, or moral

• What the passage is mostly or mainly about.

When a fiction text is in first person point of view (1st person) the narrator is

• telling about the action but not doing any of the action in the passage

• taking part in the action that is happening in the passage

• They are the first person to get there.

• The passage only has one character

When a nonfiction text is written in a FIRSTHAND account it means...

• the narrator or author ACTUALLY EXPERIENCED the event and was part of the action

• the narrator or author was NOT ACTUALLY a part of the event but is just telling about it.

• The text was written with one hand

• The first person to write it got a handshake

When a nonfiction text is written in a SECONDHAND account it means...

• the narrator or author ACTUALLY EXPERIENCED the event and was part of the action

• the narrator or author was NOT ACTUALLY a part of the event but is just telling about it.

• The text was written with two hands

• The second person to write it got a handshake

Told from the main character narrator’s point of view.

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

Which character we are getting the story from/what their role is in the story.

• Mood

• Tone

• Point-of-View

• Perspective

How a character experiences events of the story.

• Mood

• Tone

• Point-of-View

• Perspective

A story that is narrated by an outside viewer, but follows mainly the main character’s thoughts and feelings.

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

A story told by a narrator about multiple characters, and the reader knows the thoughts and feelings of many/all of the characters.

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

Perspective

• Which character we are getting the story from/what their role is in the story.

• The emotion the author wants us to feel as readers.

• How a character experiences events of the story.

• The author’s attitude towards a subject.